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Fer­nando Alonso hasn’t for­got­ten how to jet­ti­son ex­trav­a­gant quan­ti­ties of Cham­pagne while atop a podium. He’s been a bit out of prac­tice, while McLaren has cat­a­stroph­i­cally lapsed in build­ing de­cent F1 cars, but luck­ily Toy­ota was game for the Spa­niard to join its 18th Le Mans ef­fort. ’Nando did the busi­ness. His stint times were stel­lar, and teamed with Kazuki Naka­jima and Sébastien Buemi, the two-time F1 world champ’s #8 TS050 LMP1 hy­brid came home first, com­plet­ing 388 laps in 24 hours. Alonso said that, de­spite Porsche and Audi ex­it­ing the sport, he “put this vic­tory in a higher level than any other vic­tory.” Now, about the Indy 500 and that Triple Crown...